Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19

Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by antibuddy on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:06PM (#27079676)

I noticed (late summer last year) that especially age group 25-44 is/was affected in the US with a +25% (excess) mortality YoY. It is not entirely unusual that diseases affect different countries differently; However I found it peculiar.

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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by teachingassist on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:30PM (#27079967)

I suspect this is the same in other countries.

25-44 year olds don't usually die (typical mortality is approx 0.1%), so +25% represents a relatively small number in absolute terms.

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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by username90 on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:00PM (#27080250)

USA is an outlier on this. You can compare with Italy for example:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105061/coronavirus-deat...

USA has 30 times the deaths among 30-39 year olds but only 5.5 times the population. It isn't just Italy, almost every other country has a distribution similar to Italy.

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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by gremlinsinc on Friday May 07, 2021 @07:46PM (#27082101)

Italy has a huge older population and a lot more lax on cigarettes... older smokers = raised chances of death...

USA on the other hand has excess obesity across all metrics (I'm one), so if it hit younger ages harder here it's probably due to obesity epidemic raising death chances.

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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by antibuddy on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:49PM (#27080147)

At least in Germany[0] and Sweden I found nothing like that.

[0]: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoel...

edit: I found no English version unfortunately, but at least the Excel file which is easier to work with.

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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by throwaway6734 on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:57PM (#27080215)

Americans are incredibly overweight on average

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